Maine Memory Network

Good Will Boys at Fort Halifax, Winslow, 1916

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1916 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print

Fort Halifax in disrepair, Winslow, ca. 1873

Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: circa 1873 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print

Proposed Garage for Alla A. Libbey, Halifax, MA, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1937 Location: Halifax Client: Alla A. Libbey Architect: Coombs and Harriman Architects

Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador

"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.

The Irish on the Docks of Portland

Many of the dockworkers -- longshoremen -- in Portland were Irish or of Irish descent. The Irish language was spoken on the docks and Irish traditions followed, including that of giving nicknames to the workers, many of whose given names were similar.

Winslow Historical Preservation Committee

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"In Aug 1937 she loaded 1,500,000’ of lumber at Halifax and sailed for Belfast, Ireland. From there she moved on to Cardiff, Wales, to load coal for…"

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.